World Banknotes
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Lot 2466 Session 8 (2.30pm Thursday) World Banknotes
Estimate $100
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SOLD $200
GREAT BRITAIN, Bank of England, twenty pounds, London, 20 August 1936, No.53/M 35902, (cf P.337a and note p.531). Operation Bernhard Forgery, nearly uncirculated.
Operation Berhard forgeries were almost perfect counterfeits produced by prisoners in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II. The enterprise was code named 'Operation Bernhard'.
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